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"Evan is at the office. The office here, not the office in London or the one in
Tokyo, although God knows he's spent enough time in both in the last six months.
When he's in New York, he usually comes home when I'm already asleep. I turn
over and look and say to myself, Yep, that's him. Every dinner party now, he
says, I'm exhausted, can you go without me? And people accuse me of being a
workaholic. Which reminds me: Where the hell do the guys keep the Tupperware?"

Only the team of Robert and John, who made the meals, served the meals, and
cleaned up after the meals, had a clue where anything was stored in Meghan and
Evan's kitchen. Except for Leo, my nephew, he of the take-out Chinese and
late-night ramen noodles, of the endless bowls of Count Chocula and the ice
cream eaten straight from the container. He'd shown me where the Tupperware was
one night when we'd eaten enough rice pudding to kill us both.

"In the square cabinet over the wine fridge," I said.

Another reason not to bring flowers: the lady of the house doesn't know where
the vases are kept. If she had to find the vacuum cleaner or the Windex, the
world would stop on its axis.

"Why do you need Tupperware?" I asked.

"We're doing a Tupperware party on the air on Monday morning, and apparently I'm
going to have to do something called burping the Tupperware. We talked ad
nauseam about whether it would be better if it was clear that I didn't know what
the hell burping the Tupperware meant or if I burped it convincingly. With
authority, I think they said. I opted for authority."

"Of course you did. On the other hand, it's hard to figure how anyone can look
authoritative with Tupperware. I mean-Tupperware. Who cares?"

My sister gave me a long level look, her lip slightly raised on one side. "Maybe
you're preaching to the converted here?"

"Hey, who am I to talk? I spent yesterday trying to break up a bootleg sneaker
ring that apparently is being fronted by two of the women living in our shelter.
The precinct was nice about it, but they said either we could shut down the Nike
Air operation or they could shut us down."

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